The Way Life Used To Be

[00:41.12] Take it back to the afros and the naturals
[00:43.62] Cape cutter picks we slips into the back [?]
[00:46.24] I'm O.G. my nigga for real though
[00:48.28] Straight up off that east side top of the hill yo
[00:51.04] I'm looking at the overview
[00:53.08] Thinking bout 86 damn I was overdue
[00:55.54] Walking in the hood making mix tapes trying to walk up out the hood
[00:58.94] While I'm chucking at the hood nigga talk about the hood
[01:00.59] That I came from it raised me real Crip crazy
[01:04.19] [?] oops a daisy
[01:06.15] Demon or a heathen scheming while I'm dreaming
[01:09.04] Screaming to get even seeing is believing
[01:11.81] And don't you forget that
[01:14.13] Get it to you get back hit that kick back
[01:15.27] Three flies one a way
[01:18.26] Reminisce about the things that my grandmama use to say
[01:21.45] Stay in your own lane stay on your own and quick trying to be grown
[01:25.30] Day turn to night and play turn to fight
[01:28.06] Yeah I guess my granny was right
[01:31.00] Reflections of the way life used to be
[01:39.09] It's all right
[01:40.96] I like them girls from Ladera Heights or the girls on Hills
[01:43.78] I take a trip up the World On Wheels and get in a fight
[01:47.07] Make it back to my ride
[01:48.62] Pop shots at some suckers disrespecting the side
[01:51.72] My big homie my cuzzo schoolyard bozo
[01:53.97] Slid me away just to get me away
[01:55.96] I'm just a Long Beach nigga outside of my hood
[01:58.54] I'm banging riding but doing it good
[02:01.16] When I get locked down there ain't hiding and wondering
[02:03.71] As soon as I hit the County I'm up in 48 hundred
[02:05.96] With the dealers the killers the [?]
[02:07.68] The best from the west and the beast from the east
[02:11.17] Yeah I'm acting a fool
[02:13.55] I'm getting my degree from gladiator school
[02:16.43] I chose this life cause I knows this life
[02:18.94] Sell a little crack and my flows is tight
[02:21.40] I'm clear on my choice and what's cold is
[02:23.78] I can still hear my grandma's voice
[02:25.64] She say day turn to night and play turn to fight
[02:28.49] Yeah I guess my granny was right
[02:31.73] Reflections of the way life used to be
[02:35.49] It's all right
[02:41.51] If you get caught then you don't walk cause you don't talk
[02:43.96] And these was the rules squeeze on these fools
[02:46.95] I came up in a different era homie
[02:49.16] Where the G's is the G's and the little wannabe's really want it
[02:51.82] Wanna be like cause the C life make you wanna G like
[02:55.55] Now who you wanna be like
[02:57.13] That fool on the TV screen
[02:58.82] Or the homie on the corner getting major cream
[03:01.34] In the Cadillac beating like Battle Cat
[03:03.70] A nigga with money don't know how to act
[03:06.30] Smoke til your eyes get cataracts
[03:08.11] All money nonsense yeah none of that
[03:10.72] Quarter sack run it back
[03:11.93] Hold him back lock him up bag him up front him that
[03:13.69] If a trick jump the track do you want your money back
[03:14.98] Lil bitch was a bunny rat
[03:15.87] Watch for the funny hat
[03:19.25] Cause it's gonna come
[03:21.50] And my granny said it's no fun
[03:25.53] She say day turn to night and play turn to fight
[03:29.24] Yeah I guess my granny was right
[03:31.96] Reflections of the way life used to be
[03:37.59] It's all right
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